Tokyo 7th Sisters: Bokura wa Aozora ni Naru

In the year 2032, the legendary idol unit "7th Sisters" suddenly retired from the industry and disappeared. That was the end of the idol industry... until two years later, when a young glory-seeking employee is appointed to be the leader of Tokyo's next generation idol studio, "777 (Three Seven)," commonly referred to as Nanastar.

However, the city continues to believe that idols are a thing of the past, and Nanastar is no exception. Their slump continues, but one day a mysterious and beautiful female manager approaches you and says, "If the idols of the past are gone, we'll just have to make new idols! True "sisters" linked by powerful bonds!" The story of the idols of the future, the Nanastar Sisters, will now unfold.

(Source: Tokyo 7th Sisters Wiki)

Kasukabe, Haru Main

Shinoda, Minami Japanese

Harumi, Shinju Main

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Serizawa, Momoka Main

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Usuta, Sumire Main

Shimizu, Ayaka Japanese

Nonohara, Hime Main

Nakajima, Yui Japanese

Tendouji, Musubi Main

Takada, Yuuki Japanese

Tsunomori, Rona Main

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Harumi, Kajika Main

Takai, Maika Japanese

Harumi, Sawara Main

Nakamura, Sakura Japanese

Kuonji, Shizuka Main

Imai, Asaka Japanese

Oda, Motohiro Producer

Suzuki, Kouji Producer

Matsuura, Hisashi Producer

Kitagawa, Takayuki Director

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Aug 26, 2021

johnbradshaw

Recommended

Don't look at my score. I score 7 because I really enjoy watching idol anime even though this show doesn't deserve the rating. It still has some potentials, it's just executed horribly.

Tokyo 7th Sisters has quite an interesting premiere for an idol show. But it failed to make used of it. Set in the futuristic world, where Idol enter the "ice-age" after the legendary group "7th Sisters" disbanded. So now, Idol industry is in shambles, there hardly any groups left. Then we got to meet our lovely idols "777", a twelve-girls idol group with the hope of bringing idols back to its glory days. ...

In my honest opinions, there are two major things that prevent this movie to be considered a good idol show. Firstly, for its lengths of only over an hour, it's not sufficient enough to introduce 5-6 girls let alone twelve. So they have to make kind of a PV at the beginning where they spoon-fed us the info and personalities of each girls. Damn that's lazy writing just because they don't have enough money to make this movie I think. Then the second problems, they should just get rid of the horrible cartoon villain, he irritates me to the bone and absolutely contribute nothing to the plot, they could cut him out and the show will remain the same.

I figured this show need an entire new beginning section and at least 25eps anime to make this work and this will be an amazing anime for sure. Hire some competent director and make this work please.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 12, 2021

NicoHolic

Mixed Feelings

I believe a majority of the people who actually watched or heard about this movie are already fans of Tokyo 7th Sisters. Seven years ago when the game was released, it stood out as one of the earliest idol games aside of Love Live (which is the biggest franchise, even now). The franchise also took a lot of transformation, game wise (changing the game system entirely for a couple times), and story wise. They also showed signs of trying to take the franchise to the animated scene multiple times, through animating a music video with short story, to intermissions between anniversary concerts.

So when the movie ... was announced, I was very excited that this would help expanding what I consider a heavily underrated franchise (subjective) tomore audience.

Well guess what, this feels like they were trying to appeal existing fans more than introducing Tokyo 7th Sisters to newcomers.

Maybe they tried, since the worldbuilding in roughly the first half of the movie is vague at best. Some parts of the story also feels rushed. As if they want to deliver the main plot, while assuming the viewers already understood the worldbuilding and characters beforehand (which yeah, the only few characters that get development are the bad guys. Everyone else feels textbook from the franchise's main info). So what we have left is an idol-ish feature length story that feels way too generic compared to other idol animes out there.

Which is a shame, because the story writing is what made Tokyo 7th sisters shine for me. Just go play the mobile game and read the stories in it. "Episode 4.0 / 0.7 / 5.0 / 6.0" arcs really made it special and emotional. Realy woth reading.

Back to the movie, the other big problem is that the movie did not showcase the songs and shows as much as it should. I get it, there's hardly ever any 'show' aspects in the game (unlike almost every other music franchise nowadays), but the song selection are not highlighted as much as...you know...a movie focusing on music would.

If you're already a Tokyo 7th Sisters fan, you'd still enjoy this movie (and the fact that it took SEVEN YEARS for any animated story to materialize). But I'm highly disappointed that this could have been the magnet that gives Tokyo 7th sisters the love and popularity that it deserves. Instead, this would probably become another idol movie that did not stand out against other movies of the same genre.

If you never heard of Tokyo 7th sisters before, seriously go play the game, go discover the songs, go read the in-game story. you'd get to appreciate Tokyo 7th Sisters more than watching this movie.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 24, 2023

Broccolijamjam

Not Recommended

I will preface by saying that I have not played the game, so maybe that is good. The impression that I get from this movie is that every aspect of it is wildly derivative of other idol series. It is very generic despite having a futuristic setting, which you would think they would do something with. The characters felt like exact copies of other idol series' characters. Obviously I know that there are common tropes between idol series, but the Tokyo 7th Sisters characters are literally exactly the same as individual existing characters. Every time a new character started speaking, I immediately could identify which ... existing character they were created to rip-off. And then the actual plot doesn't make up for any of this. Weirdly it kind of feels like a kids movie, but some parts are too inappropriate for kids I think so I don’t think this could have been rebranded as being for kids either.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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